Ok, I'm not going to blow smoke up your ass about this. Yes my hand is all healed but that was quite a while ago, sorry about the delay I've just been busy and I know that's no excuse but I have no other. Sorry for the wait for anyone still reading this hopeing on some off chance I'll be back with this awsome chapter that will blow your minds. To be honest I've kinda lost the Naru obsession but it's slowly coming back so I hope to have more up soon. Sorry once again, hope you enjoy what I TRIED to write...I feel so ashamed...

"Speech"

'Thought'

"Kyuubi"

(Standard Disclaimer)

Chapter 50: Lightning Strikes Twice

Five days had finally passed.

Time had run out for Konoha.

Standing on the cliffs over looking Konoha stood all ten of the Akatsuki, garbed in their dark black attire with the scattered red clouds. "Five days have passed," growled the leader, his blazing red eyes turned menacingly upon all of Konoha. He had sat and waited long enough, now it was time to gain the Kyuubi!

"Banrai," he growled not moving his eyes from the village. The said yellow haired monster stepping forward from the crowd of ten his cloak waving in the light breeze. "Yes Leader?" Banrai said, his rumbling voice brimming with child-like excitement. "You're the expert at wide range destruction," the Leader said his red eyes narrowing as he stared at Konoha. Deidara fidgeted in anger but said nothing, he may easily destroy a village but it was an explosion, uncontrolled to the point of potential death on their part. In short Deidara didn't like Banrai, not in the least.

Banrai grinned and his arms began to fill out his cloaks sleeves, causing them to billow out until they were on the verge of splitting. His hands emerged from the sleeves ends revealing gigantic hands. They could easily outsize his head and on the back of his hands were markings in black ink. Jagged spirals with sharp X shaped twists. He laughed with that rolling thunder voice and said, "just like after the Chuunin Exams."

His hands formed the bird seal but were quickly pulled apart to avoid a Kunai aimed to impale both his hands. The Leader's mouth turned up in a venomous grin as he turned in the direction where the Kunai had come from. The Kyuubi was here.

His blood red eyes, along with all the eyes of the other nine members, fell upon one nine tailed Kitsune, his blue and golden eyes burning with hate. He stood on a boulder, his clothing old and torn but his entire body radiated chakra unimagined by any human or demon. "Well it's been five days, few years for me, feeling lucky?" Naruto said with a wide grin as he stood looking down at the ten members.

The Leader looked around; his seasoned mind sensing the forwardness of this Kyuubi was masking an ambush. "Banrai, Tsurara, Deidara, Bakemono...fan out and deal with any disturbances," the Leader said as all four nodded. They were confident that the Leader with the remaining five members could capture the Kitsune in thier snare. Banrai and Tsurara vanished in a blur while Deidara and what had to be Bakemono also blurred out of existence. "Shall we get started nine tailed fox?" the Leader said with a sickening grin behind his collar.

Naruto laughed and said, "yes, yes I am." With that Naruto's hands flew up and formed a very familiar cross shaped seal...

Banrai laughed as he landed in a great crater, they had found two intruders easily. It was child's play! One was the black haired Uchiha brother of Itachi, and the other was a green spandex wearing freak. "This is beyond easy," Banrai said with a sick grin as Tsurara appeared beside him saying nothing at all...just staring with those ice cold eyes.

"Well then you obviously don't know who we are," Sasuke said with a small smirk, he already knew which of these freaks he wanted to face. "Oh I think we do," Banrai said with a deep chuckle. "Uchiha Sasuke, the one survivor of the Uchiha clan massacre but apparently you've been having a very prosperous life since the fox killed Orochimaru," Banrai said, his eyes locked onto Sasuke's.

To bad Sasuke wasn't looking at him, instead Sasuke was staring into the ice cold gaze of Tsurara. Those chilling blue eyes matching Sasuke's black, slowly turning red, orbs in their silent power. Sasuke had felt a gaze like this before, it was like the paralyzing gaze of Momochi Zabuza, but that was well in the past. Sasuke flexed his fingers and said, "I hate waiting around. Especially since that dobe is going against five other freaks like you two. Let's say we get started."

Like that Sasuke had lunged at Tsurara, his Sharingan alive taking in all of Tsurara's movements even to the most minute twitch of his muscles. Tsurara didn't move, not even the slightest, but as Sasuke drove a kick into his side he was suddenly three yards away. Sasuke landed and took off again, intent on impaling this icy freak with his Chidori that had long ago been renamed Raikiri.

Banrai glared and said distastefully, "I get stuck with the green one." Lee, up until now, had been silent but those words enraged him. Sure he wasn't as well known as the others but he was working hard to change that. He was getting there too! All of Konoha and even Suna knew his name! He was going to make sure that whatever village this monster came from they would know him, the greatest ninja ever to only use Taijutsu!

Lee vanished in a blur to which Banrai rose his eyebrows, "that's pretty quick." He held up his arm, revealing that enormous hand of his and in a flash caught Lee's leg without his arm moving an inch. "Pretty powerful too," Banrai said as he pulled Lee over him and then easily slammed the green beast into the ground. An enormous crater formed but like that Lee got up, seemingly uninjured.

To be honest that was what he was at the moment, he was completely uninjured even after that powerful slam. Naruto's ninth scroll held a couple of miracles after all, it held long kept secrets about human and demon anatomy that would allow them to survive much more punishment than they could even with intense training. Demons kept these secrets to themselves; they wanted no competition from humans even if they were weaker. Lee was now a lightning fast tank, his bones stronger than any steel and his skin as tough as rhino's hide.

"Damn resilient too," Banrai said before his cloak seemed to grow. Lee leapt up to the other side of the crater; it seemed Banrai was getting ready for something big. "I like these cloaks you know why?" Banrai asked his huge hands flying out of the sleeves, "they conceal hand seals really well. Heikireki!"

Banrai's hand slammed together and with that quick movement they produced a massive sound that split the ground in half. Lee leapt away from the destruction but had to hold his ears, it was a deafening tidal wave of sound and he knew what it was like to be caught in one. Banrai laughed and separated his hands revealing sparks of lightning shooting between his gigantic palms.

Slamming his hands to the ground Banrai called, "Makuden no Jutsu!" Lee stared at the ground that suddenly became covered in a thin sheet of bright yellow crackling electricity. Lee thought quickly and grabbed his ankles, unfastening the clips on his weights and letting them drop into the electric fields. They melted slightly before forming a gigantic crater, almost three times as big as the one he had made at the Chuunin Exams so long ago.

Lee landed, the field of electricity gone and he was now much lighter on his feet. Banrai grinned and said, "well quick-" That was as far as he got because Lee had planted a powerful roundhouse kick right into his face sending him flying. Banrai flew but that wasn't the end of his misery. Lee was on him like a flash and sending him into a whole other direction with one hit.

Lee followed Banrai on his flight but stopped and veered off the second he heard it. It was faint and low toned...but it was laughter. Banrai was laughing as he turned mid-air and skidded to a stop, his cloak messy and torn but his motions giving the illusion that he hadn't been hurt in the least.

"I must say I'm impressed!" Banrai said excited as his huge hands exited his cloak. Lee looked on, confused as how ANY ninja could withstand that barrage without injury. This was beginning to remind him of his first fight with Gaara and that was a very unnerving thought. "How is it possible that you are not hurt? Do you have a friend with abilities such as Naruto?" Lee asked, his curiosity peaking.

Banrai laughed as his hands gripped the fabric of his cloak, "no, I just put my back into my work." With one simple movement Banrai torn his cloak from his skin revealing a monster of a man, a body so packed with dense muscles that he couldn't stand upright. His shoulders were wide and monstrously misshapen from the bulging muscles just beneath his skin.

He wore no shirt, as if any would ever hope to fit him, and around his waist was a belt Hitai Ate, much like Lee's. It brandished the symbol of Cloud; that would explain the lightning attacks. "I notice you only use Taijutsu," Banrai asked, his jagged toothed mouth splitting into a grin. Even his jaw muscles were monstrous and Lee could tell that was what warped his teeth, anything under that pressure would have to change. Banrai's hands clenched and his bandaged arms pulsed with flowing blood and twitching muscle, he was ready to fight.

"I have never been able to use my chakra in Ninjutsu and Genjutsu. I have focused on Taijutsu my entire life," Lee said examining his opponent from head to toe. With such muscles he couldn't hope to be anywhere near as flexible as Lee was himself, thank the gods Naruto overhauled his body with holy Kitsune magic. "I have worked hard to obtain recognition as being a great ninja based only on Taijutsu," Lee said sliding into a ready stance.

"Well then we have something in common," Banrai said, rolling his head around his neck producing a few cracks. "I myself loved Taijutsu, hands on approach you know," he said vanishing in a blur of yellow. Lee's eyes snapped open and he ducked the oncoming blow to his head only to catch Banrai's foot in his gut earning a painful snap of his ribs.

Lee clenched his teeth and grabbed Banria's leg lifting him up then spinning in a circle sending him flying with ease. Banrai twisted in the air and laughed, "that's all you have?" Lee closed his eyes and in a flash he opened them. His body pulsed with power, enough to make the wind move and crack lesser stones. Lee felt the pain of his broken ribs lessen and his body regain the power he had lost from his beatings, and this was only his third gate! Whatever Naruto had done to his body he truly had to thank him.

Lee took off in a green blur and met Banrai in the air, with a grin on his face he punched Banrai right in the chest making Banrai fly like a toy. Banrai winced, that one blow actually hurt beneath his solid muscle armor. Suddenly he felt pain spread across his back and he was rocketed forward by the power of Lee's kick to his back, ok that one REALLY hurt.

Lee easily out sped Banrai's recovery rate, it was like an invisible hand was slapping Banrai around without any limitations. Banrai was getting sick of this treatment but any time he attempted to make a hand seal his hands were crushed by a kick from the super charged Lee. Banrai growled then reached out, grabbing Lee by his neck with his long arms with pure luck.

Lee was surprised that Banrai was able to catch him but surmised it had to happen eventually; this was one of the Akatsuki. Banrai slammed Lee to the ground then hit him several times with his massive fists, satisfied as he heard cracks and painful other sounds emitting from Lee. Banrai rose his hand up again but as he brought it forward he found it to be blocked by another, much smaller hand.

In all the commotion of destroying Lee he had kicked up huge amounts of dust covering the green clad Ninja from view, he hadn't seen him since the beginning of his pummeling. His eyes opened as he felt the power beneath him, it was strong...and seeming to get stronger. The dust cleared and there was Lee, his eyes a pure white and his skin a dark red emanating with power and Chakra.

Banrai felt his fist being pushed back and forced himself to go more, to compensate for this ninja's celestial gates. As the game of push and pull got more and more intense Banrai laughed, a low dark tone as his gargantuan fists grappled with Lee's chakra charged hands. "What are you laughing at?" Lee asked, his pure white eyes locked on Banrai's black slit pupils. "You and I are truly alike; you worked hard to learn this didn't you?" Banrai asked pushing a bit more on Lee who pushed back with just as much force.

The ground shook as the powerful ninja faced off, rocks levitated with Lee's Chakra and the ground was scarred by Banrai's. Lee's smaller form compared to Banrai's gargantuan self seemed an unfair fight but here they were, Lee facing against the powerful lightning user. "Well I worked hard too, these muscles don't just grow themselves," Banrai said through clenched teeth.

"I would tackle boulders, lift towers, break mountains, just to get stronger," Banrai said, his muscles seeming to pulse then push harder on Lee. "As I grew stronger I found it was harder and harder to gain power...but then I wasn't looking hard enough. I found that if you shock a muscle with electricity it contracts, it disobeys whatever limit's the brain puts on it and it pulls with all its strength no matter what the weight," Banrai said his hair rising as he began to form a small static charge.

"I put these marks on my hands to create the necessary charge. I don't even need hand seals!" Banrai said as his entire body began to emit chakra that quickly turned into electrical sparks by the marks on his hands. The shocks quickly found direction into Banrai's skin forcing his muscles well past their mental limit and forcing Lee down slowly. "See we aren't so different, I have my shocks and you have your gates," Banrai said but suddenly Lee screamed, "NO!"

Lee looked up, mentally unlocking the next two gates, the sixth and seventh, forcing Banrai back with his chakra enhanced body. He felt his muscles begin to tear but he didn't care, he was nothing like this beast. "I'm not like you, I worked hard to become known as Rock Lee, the greatest ninja that only used Taijutsu! You used tricks to gain your strength! I'll prove my work as a hard working genius and not a ninja that used short cuts!" Lee howled as he forced Banrai back with ease.

Banrai growled and his shock output doubled to keep up with Lee's celestial gates, he knew his mammoth muscles were getting torn and exhausted all over but then again with his maximum out put he could kill this ninja. "Well if we're not alike then I could just as easy kill you right now," Banrai said with a grin. Lee smirked and said, "let's see you try."

Banrai yelled as his chakra went to it's maximum, pouring out and shocking his muscles into working over time. He easily over powered Lee and held him up by his neck. He grinned as pulled back a powerful punch, the last one Lee would ever experience. Suddenly his arm went completely lax and he screamed in pain, his arms had just given out and all of his muscles were rendered torn to shreds.

Lee grinned and took his chance, with Naruto's upgrades his body would last just a bit longer in this stage of the celestial gates without much permanent damage. He just had to make this count!

He crouched low and delivered a powerful kick to Banrai's jaw sending him flying into the air, this was Banrai's final fight. Lee leapt up and didn't bother with the usual batting him around, it was enough for him to lose both his arms forever. Lee flew above Banrai grabbing his legs as he went and in a great act of agility he spun like a top. At the highest point of his spin he left Banrai go, letting the monster slam into the ground at lethal speeds.

He wasn't done though. Lee zoomed down at Banrai, lying on the ground completely helpless, and with the speed of the seventh celestial gate he drove his palm into Banrai's muscle armored chest. Banrai sunk two feet deeper into the ground, his heart turned to mush the second Lee's palm made contact with his sternum.

Lee jumped out of the crater quickly before shutting down all his gates then falling to the unbelievable pain that he was in. He felt all of his muscles, as advanced as they might be, strained and torn to the point of being unusable. Well he proved it, a ninja only skilled in Taijutsu could beat one of the Akatsuki. For some reason he felt it was a pretty good fluke but luck follows the strong he once heard Gai say.

"Hey Lee," he heard that calm voice and turned the best he could seeing Sasuke approach him without a scratch on him. "Sasuke!" Lee said about as cheerfully as he could, it was pretty lame sounding. "You sound like you need this," Sasuke said with a grin as he held out one of Naruto's chakra healing pills. "Oh thank the gods those exist," Lee said as Sasuke fed it to him, Lee had no upper body strength to speak of right now.

"What happened with the ice Akatsuki member?" Lee asked swallowing the pill already feeling it begin to work. "It was odd..." Sasuke said looking out into space, "he fell to a B level fire jutsu and he didn't even scratch me. Something isn't right." Lee nodded in agreement. Even if he was weak by Akatsuki standards then Tsurara would still be a very powerful ninja.

Lee sighed as he felt the powerful healing pill work it's magic through his system, his ribs and muscles were healing but it would take quite a while to be back to full strength. The draw back to having an advanced body meant having a longer healing time then normal even with Naruto's chakra pills.

Suddenly an explosion rocked the area and both ninja turned quickly, that came from the area Naruto was fighting that Akatsuki, they had to get going. Sasuke stood up and said, "Lee can you stand?" Lee shakily got to his feet and took a few practice steps; the 'miracle pill' really worked some amazing wonders.

Lee grinned and nodded, "I'm perfectly capable of keeping up with you Sasuke." Sasuke laughed as he too popped one of the Naruto pills and said, "let's see you prove that fact." Sasuke then reached over with his left arm to his right, grasping the bottom of the sleeve and pulling it up to reveal a tattoo...that bizarre winding tattoo that had been on the arm of one Orochimaru.

End Chapter

Yeah this sucked...so badly. I really have no excuse for any of it so all I can do is say I'm sorry and be done with it. I'm not sure about the future but I'm hopeing this is a step in the right direction. No Q and A sorry, Later.